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Month: April 2010

Tomorrow is Poem in Your Pocket Day! To take part, simply choose a favorite poem to carry with you throughout the day and share it with friends, classmates, colleagues, neighbors, and family.

This year, Mayor Bloomberg’s office is encouraging New Yorkers to participate in a Poetweet. Contribute your best short verse to @NYCMayorsOfficevia Twitter. The rules are simple: keep it clean and under 140 characters.

Not sure what poem to select? Visit poets.org to browse by first line, title theme, or author, or check out a book from the library’s poetry book display near the staircase on the 4th floor.

The City Tech Library, in partnership with the Faculty Commons, is pleased to invite all faculty to a library workshop. In this workshop we’ll learn more about the specialized features of RefWorks: creating custom citation styles, inserting references directly into MS Word documents, and advanced searching. Participants should be familiar with RefWorks or have attended an introductory RefWorks workshop.

PLEASE NOTE: If you are interested in working with RefWorks and were unable to attend the Introductory RefWorks workshop earlier in the semester, you are welcome to attend this workshop! The workshop can address basic features of RefWorks also.

This workshop will be held on Wednesday, April 28, 1-2pm in Rm A540 (Atrium). RSVP to Maura Smale at msmale@citytech.cuny.edu or 260-5748.

During the Spring semester examination period at NYU Poly, the Dibner Library will not permit ALB card holders or other non-Poly users to access the library. The exam period at NYU Poly runs from April 29 to May 13. More information on ALB (Academic Libraries of Brooklyn) is available here.

The library’s collection of eBooks is accessible from any computer, just as our ejournals and all content from our databases are. There are 2 ways to access eBooks from off campus; both start with a validated and activated City Tech ID card.

Click on the Find eBooks tab, select the electronic books link, and then select an eBooks collection to browse.

Click on the title of the eBook you wish to read.

On the next screen, you will be prompted to type your library barcode. Type in the 14-digit barcode from your College ID WITHOUT spaces. This number is on the lower right side of the front of your ID card.

From the Find Books tab, search CUNY+ for books by keyword, title, subject, or author. Records for eBooks appear in the list of results with the label Electronic Resource in the Format field

Click on the title of the item you want to view the Full Record

To access an eBook from the Full Record screen, click on the URL

To access an eBook from the Holdings screen, click on the URL

On the next screen, you will be prompted to type your library barcode. Type in the 14-digit barcode from your College ID WITHOUT spaces. This number is on the lower right side of the front of your ID card.

Download these instructions as a .pdf or view them online. Happy e-reading!

Mary Nilles explains to students and faculty about her research in the library's new exhibit.

The subjects of the exhibit include the native people, a group of utopians from New York City (members of the Western Farm and Village Association), various European settlers, and, within the past three decades, the newcomers from Bosnia, Cambodia, Mexico, Vietnam, Russia and Somalia. Exhibit arranged by City Tech English Professor Mary Nilles with historian Jean Ensch of Strassen, Luxembourg. Dr. Nilles has arranged this display through support from and collaboration with several funding sources and many individuals. Elementary and high school-level students and instructors, as well as university students and professors in Minnesota, Luxembourg, Ohio, Wisconsin, Luxembourg, and New York City (including students in her English classes at City Tech) have been partners in this research initiative for several years. A series of posters to advertise this exhibition have been created this semester by Emmanuel Duarte, a student in a Design class taught by Professor Anthony Accardo.

The City Tech Library, in partnership with the Faculty Commons, is pleased to invite all faculty to a library workshop. Blogs continue to change how scholarly ideas are expressed and exchanged. Workshop participants will learn how to set up and maintain a blog using WordPress, how to use the Twitter microblogging service, and how to find scholarly information in the “blogosphere.”

This workshop will be held on Tuesday, April 20, 1-2pm in Rm A540 (Atrium). RSVP to Maura Smale at msmale@citytech.cuny.edu or 260-5748.

. . . at least it may seem like it for those scrambling to file federal and state taxes today, April 15. Yet April is National Poetry Month, and may be the kindest month for fans of the spoken word. There are many ways to keep up with poetry readings and events in and around New York. The Ultimate NYC Poetry Calendar lists events every night of the week throughout the year in all 5 boroughs, and New York City’s Poem in Your Pocket Project has a list of events throughout April. You can also follow PoetryNYC on Twitter for a continuous update on poetry readings, book launches, author appearances, and other poetry-related happenings.

*This famous phrase is the first line of T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land. Read the rest of the poem here.

Using PubMed to Find Biomedical Information
Examine the content available in PubMed (e.g., how it differs from MEDLINE), and learn how to build a search using keywords, MeSH terms, and other PubMed search tools and link to full-text articles.

Wednesday, April 14, 1-2pm

Workshops are open to all City Tech faculty members. All workshops are held in our electronic classroom (Rm A540) on the 5th Fl. of the City Tech Library, Atrium Bldg. RSVP is strongly suggested to Prof. Maura Smale, msmale@citytech.cuny.edu or 718-260-5748.

Of course, poetry that is free of copyright restrictions is easy to find online. One comprehensive source is Bartleby.com/verse/ – search by author or first line, or browse the many anthologies and other collections.